Our report shows that [ObamaCare] will have negative effects on the franchising industry’s ability to grow and create much-needed jobs for the U.S. economy. We estimate that the law will negatively affect tens of thousands of franchise businesses, adding more than $6.4 billion in increased costs, not including the cost of regulatory compliance. Further, we estimate that the jobs of more than 3.2 million full-time employees in franchise businesses would be put at risk.

Great, the most vulnerable segment of the population are further affected by this. I do feel bad for most of the people who are working in these franchise business now that their jobs are on very shaky grounds.